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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 6h

or a tit-for-tat justification, a books-balancing, "bad stuff happened to me and that cancels out the bad stuff I do to others"

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 7h

yes, it would've been pretty neat if they'd had the guts to keep him as a scumbag the whole time

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 7h

I mean do these people think coders work in assembly language or something, do they not know what a compiler does

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 7h

also Good Omens TV rewrote the story to "queer enemies-to-lovers"

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 8h

Lloyd Alexander's "Prydain" series could work. (Disney tried it with "Black Cauldron" but that was plenty long ago.)

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'd say each of them is the worst one in its own special way.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"bitch got mouthy and needed to be taught a lesson", the guy thought as he took up nine pounds of pressure for the second time

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

you'd think these people had never seen a blonde before the way they're carrying on

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

she said it IN THE THING YOU LINKED, bro, you can stop fluffing her, it's okay

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

do we get to see the tweets in this apology? no. we get to be told that the tweets were okay, though, the best tweets, nice ones, definitely well-thought-out and not deserving of the nasty mean responses that jerks on the internet did to make her feel bad.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

how about the part where she said she started posting without reading the story, and then decided that since it was taken down that she *shouldn't* read the story (but kept posting about it anyway)

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would you expect to get things that you like and are for you if you want people to make things that you don’t like and that aren’t for you?

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And "jury nullification", as a concept, started in communities where juries would refuse to deliver a guilty verdict for people accused of lynching...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this sounds great and is really powerful to say but it results in a world where everything is made for cishet people age 19-34 because that's the demographic with the largest numbers and the most free capital

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

her detailed apology consisted of "I guess I'm sorry that I helped to bring a bunch of shit down on someone to ~fragile~ to handle a little ~controversy~ but I guess it was their own fault really for starting shit"

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 09/10/2026

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

even in California it's like this, everyone talks about How Bad The Traffic Is (and it *is* bad) but that's just LA and the SF Bay, outside there it's basically Nebraska with an ocean nearby...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This kind of thing hung around for a while. "I Can Has Cheezburger" and "Failblog" both had multiple years of printed products from the idea, up to the mid-2000s...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I did find it interesting that in the book Nedry is just some guy, but in the movie they made him a high-LARIOUS fat dude...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah this is what I think, not so much the reality of the execution as the fact that they are gonna make it be a fucking circus show because they don't understand that there might *be* another way to do it, or a reason to do it that way...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I did have this discussion with my wife. She claimed that "everyone hates AI art" (after seeing a local craft fair use a clearly-designed-by-AI poster.) I said "really? because if everyone hates it, then why is it showing up everywhere?"

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It feels a lot like Bell Telephone's huge push for video-phones in the late 1970s. They put as much money into it, proportionally, as is currently going into AI. And every single time an actual user made a video-phone call in a demo, it took about thirty seconds before they said "nope"...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

and if you can't turn everything into a TV, then the next best thing is to wear glasses that make everything *look* like a TV!

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, stuff in the floating boneyard doesn't even look that bad!

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is a certain type of person who just wants everything in the world to be an active media display

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the issues is whether you can do your work in any place because it's mostly Phone (or laptop), or whether you need to be in an office to do it; because anywhere you're sitting can be an office then it doesn't matter that you got a flight booked with two layovers that arrives at 2 AM...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And, y'know, did some human go in and do all that pixel adjustment or was that just "paste in a screenshot from Wall-E and click the 'filter' button", which is not really much different from "have AI book a flight"...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The problem is that most teachers will fail you if you don't do the homework, even if you pass all the tests, so *they* think that doing it has inherent value beyond developing your skills for the test...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"I wanna be able to hang out with the people who I wish were my friends and have it so they have to do whatever I want and they can't tell me 'no' or 'stop' or 'bro that's stupid'..."

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love how you see stuff like this and everybody who knows anything can immediately point out how this is the shitty version of everything. I'm pretty sure someone has already pegged the kind of car he's driving and identified that it's the basic consumer trim level...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was a bit in one of the EU novels about how every time he goes on leave he comes back with a massive gnarly beard...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

good job on the ad-lib response, too, he got it out without any "um" "uh"-ing.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's about abortion. They've dug so far down into the No Kill Babby hole that anyone who *won't* say "abortion should be legal" is Christian. He could straight-up take a shit on a Bible and they'll still say "but he got Roe v. Wade overturned, that means he's pro-Christian..."

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

he'll make challenge coins for it and hand them out with a big excited grin on his face and genuinely not understand why everyone isn't happy to get one

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yeah, I mean it's not wrong to say "what we are doing is intentionally killing someone in a very torturous way", but I really do expect this to be a travesty with, like, a marching band and a display of the American flag and someone singing the national anthem and shit.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's got a hell of a targeting system, though. Goes right to the spot.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone on here said "I've never before seen a guy so desperate to be involved in a war crime"...

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And, as previously mentioned, it would've been noticed that they hadn't been in port for quite a long time.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...although no matter how hard he sells it, his wife is NOT buying the story of how he happened to come home from the bar without any pants on.

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's interesting seeing how these numbers drive other systems in the chain. The Sprint missile's extreme performance was based on this kind of analysis, which calculated that there would be dozens of seconds to identify a target and fewer than twenty to achieve an intercept at a meaningful distance.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last week I stumbled across a once-classified report from 1971 that listed the actual times for SLBM attacks and warning systems. What hooked me from the onset was that all the times are listed in *seconds*. This week for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I try to unpack all that a bit...

doomsdaymachines.net

The speed of war

The short times of nuclear warning and attack (1971)

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who does something like that was always going to do it; it was just a matter of sufficient social pressure keeping it down.

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